Linus is using the wrong distro [LWN.net]

Linus is using the wrong distro

Posted Jan 28, 2009 19:29 UTC (Wed) by mgb (guest, #3226)
Parent article: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Fedora these days is unabashedly bleeding edge. I wish it weren't so - it cost us a lot of time migrating systems that started with RH5 and had to abandon Fedora after FC3 - but there are lots of stable distros that Linus could use if he wants to spend his time working rather than bleeding.

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Linus is using the wrong distro

Posted Jan 28, 2009 19:40 UTC (Wed) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]

What business does Linus have running unstable software? Indeed he should be using well proven, stable software. Only software developers should touch alpha stuff.

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Linus is using the wrong distro

Posted Jan 29, 2009 0:01 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

There is a special place in Hell for people who write "flawed" posts and then end them with "wait", thinking that people still find that humorous rather than just old and annoying.

Anyway, the entire basis of the KDE project's defense of their incredibly poor choice of version designation was that the distros would protect users from their false advertising. Clearly that didn't work out for Fedora users. Bad decisions all up and down the stream.

Linus is using the wrong distro

Posted Jan 29, 2009 5:04 UTC (Thu) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]

"There is a special place in Hell for people who write "flawed" posts and then end them with 'wait', thinking that people still find that humorous rather than just old and annoying."

Whereas self-appointed humor arbiters all go straight to Heaven, I'm sure.

Linus is using the wrong distro

Posted Feb 5, 2009 10:09 UTC (Thu) by oblio (guest, #33465) [Link]

By your own admission, if I'm a PHP developer writing websites, I should be running Linux-2.6.34-pre-alpha to debug it? Maybe I want to write a kernel module in my spare time, too?

Not all developers are born/bred/interested/working alike.

Of course, in this case things are reversed, you have a hardcore hacker trying a new DE. But just because he can write an operating system kernel, it doesn't mean he's interested in contributing to a DE...